The OS X/Linux clients and other programs are split up and I don't want to link them all. Go here and click on "other platforms."

Here is the beta client page if anyone wants to use those. I used the v7 client in beta for a long time before it was released. Since a lot of people will only be folding for Frankie and not for any real consequence, I wouldn't hesitate to use one of these clients. Having said all that, Stanford does say that the OS X v7 client isn't all that stable. OS X users might avoid it if you can.

If anyone needs help getting things set up go ahead and post in here and we'll try to help.

Can someone PM the TRFrankenbot passkey? I have it from last year but it is not working on this i7-970 hex core. The points are not show up in extreme folding. Just want to make sure I have the right key. The GPU is running and it's points are showing up. I will just reinstall the SMP under Linux.

Would somebody please PM me a passkey? I'll set it up on my Windows 8 90-day Trial rig. It's doing nothing but sitting on a shelf at the moment anyway, and yet it should be good for all of October!

Question 1: Can I set up clients for both CPU and GPU simultaneously?Question 2: I'm interested to see how much it warms up the home office but I also want to be sure I don't cause overheating problems if I'm running Folding in my home office while I'm at work or sleeping. Is it possible to set up a governor of some sort?

Question 3: Is there an FAQ that can answer newbie technical issues, such as questions 1 and 2 above? I'll self-educate as needed.

I'm using a Q6600 and an Asus P5KC motherboard. Win 8 64 bit and 8 GB RAM. I have a Radeon 53xx (I think). The whole rig is almost 7 years old except for the graphic card, which I think is about 3 or 4 years old.

Would somebody please PM me a passkey? I'll set it up on my Windows 8 90-day Trial rig. It's doing nothing but sitting on a shelf at the moment anyway, and yet it should be good for all of October!

Question 1: Can I set up clients for both CPU and GPU simultaneously?Question 2: I'm interested to see how much it warms up the home office but I also want to be sure I don't cause overheating problems if I'm running Folding in my home office while I'm at work or sleeping. Is it possible to set up a governor of some sort?

Question 3: Is there an FAQ that can answer newbie technical issues, such as questions 1 and 2 above? I'll self-educate as needed.

I'm using a Q6600 and an Asus P5KC motherboard. Win 8 64 bit and 8 GB RAM. I have a Radeon 53xx (I think). The whole rig is almost 7 years old except for the graphic card, which I think is about 3 or 4 years old.

Thanks!

I just sent you the passkey.

1. Yes. 2. You can tell it how much of each core to use. As long as you have a decent cooler you'll be fine. 2a. That graphics card isn't going to put up much PPD. You can get it folding if you want, but if you have issues or anything it's not like it will be a big loss.

Got the PM and already responded; thanks. I always forget the Asus laptop; being a Sandy Bridge i7, he can probably contribute a lot more work units than the desktop; maybe even by an order of magnitude.

You probably don't want to run it on a laptop. Whilst the CPU will handle the heat, it's going to heat everything else up in there and may cause premature failure to something else like the HDD or PSU.

Both machines initially pegged at 100% CPU and both were using the GPU slot; it seems that they are making good use of the GPUs, which pleased me to discover this.

The Asus laptop (I think it's either a G71 or a G73, something like that) on Win 7 64 bit is truly a screamer. The SMP slot seems to get HUGE work units (8 threads) and the Nvidia 460 seems to really eat up it's fair share of work units too. The tower machine (Q6600), using Windows 8 RTM/90Day Trial, is no slouch, but is most definitely not in the same class as the Asus' i7 processor.

I was concerned about the heat, though; especially with the CPUs all pegged at 100%. The laptop's dual fans were blowing hot air right from the rear ports from the get-go and the tower was generating some heat from the water radiator (though not scalding hot). I played with the settings on both machines and I got them both down to 75% CPU utilization, which seems to have reduced the temps a bit (but I didn't do any scientific analysis of either system).

On the laptop, I'm using 6 of 8 threads up around 80% and the other two threads are down around 20-30%. On the desktop, I'm using 3 of 4 threads around 80% and the other thread is also down around 20%.

I feel better about leaving some headroom, especially since my central AC is set to 83 F during the day when I'm at work. When I get home I'll check the status of things and I'll decide how hard to run the laptop going forward I probably won't run the laptop 24/7, but I can run the workstation 24/7 (as long as I don't need my production systems).

I cut through a couple of WUs overnight, and this morning, I noticed that the laptop got one WU with a 1.2 day estimate. Wow. I never knew I'd have so much fun learning about this.

If I decide to continue folding funder my own name after October, I'll have to choose a unique username. "BIF" has apparently already been used to fold (but not by me, I'm a newbie at this).

Fun stuff. Hopefully I won't get home to find two computers with liquified CPUs.

I had to boot back into Windows 7 this weekend on the workstation, so he hasn't been folding all weekend. He can only put up a maximum of 6,500 PPD anyway. He frequently gets units of work that return either 2785 points or 203 points and finish in 6 to 10 hours.

The constant blowing from the laptop got me nervous, so yesterday evening I let it finish up the work units it was doing; I am probably up to 34,000 points with that system. I'll probably start both machines up again today and let them run for another day; whatever time the laptop needs to finish its big SMP work units. He often receives SMP work units that take 1.2 days and return ~8,500 points (5,000+ are bonus points), so I'll let him run those to completion. His GPU work units usually return 1,200 to 2,500 points and those often take 6 to 8 hours.

I can never remember the stats on the i7, so today I looked them up:

Model Asus G73S. It's about a year old. I know because I recently extended my "Lojack for Laptops" subscription. Yeah, I hate subscriptions. But I hate thieves more. CPU - Core i7 2630QMGPU - Nvidia Geforce GTX 460MMemory - I added memory to it; it has 12 MB right nowMain HDD - Seagate 750 GB 7200 RPM; this is not big enough for running DAW software (well, software, yes...but not big sample libraries), so when I go someplace with a MIDI keyboard, I bring along two external USB 3.0 7200 RPM laptop drives that have my samples. One is 750 GB and the other is 500 GB.

This laptop has no ability to use a docking port.The GPU cannot use DVI but has one HDMI port; so no eyefinity equivalent.The laptop has USB 2.0 and 3.0 built in.

As of this writing, my machines have been folding for about 6 hours now.

"Stealth Fighter" is currently working on an SMP work unit with a remaining ETA of 2.3 days (12,000 points), and a smaller GPU work unit with an ETA of "only" 18 hours (5,500 points)."Old Man" is back up on windows 8 and is busy working on an SMP one with an ETA now of 1.3 days and another with 3.5 hours. The former will bring 4092 credits and the latter will add 1800 points. Compared to prior work units on this system, 1.3 DAYS (it started out six hours ago at 1.5 days) seems like a very long run for only 4K points.

BIF wrote:Hmmm, I just saw this oddity. It wasn't there a few days ago, unless it just never occurred to me to scroll down. Looks like it was from 2010. <snip>

Yeah, I vaguely remember that happening. Someone obviously fumble-fingered the team number!

BIF wrote:"Old Man" is back up on windows 8 and is busy working on an SMP one with an ETA now of 1.3 days and another with 3.5 hours. The former will bring 4092 credits and the latter will add 1800 points. Compared to prior work units on this system, 1.3 DAYS (it started out six hours ago at 1.5 days) seems like a very long run for only 4K points.

Are you running with the passkey (to get the SMP early turn-in bonus)? If so, running two SMP units on the same system is likely to be counter-productive. On a reasonably fast machine, the bonuses can account for the bulk of the points awarded (provided the WUs are turned around quickly).

If you want to get some idea, take a look at my personal monitoring page (linked in my previous post). It shows the base points for each WU currently being worked on and also gives an estimate of total points with bonus (given the current rate of progress).

The years just pass like trains. I wave, but they don't slow down.-- Steven Wilson

BIF wrote:"Old Man" is back up on windows 8 and is busy working on an SMP one with an ETA now of 1.3 days and anothera GPU work unit with an ETA 3.5 hours...

just brew it! wrote: Are you running with the passkey (to get the SMP early turn-in bonus)? If so, running two SMP units on the same system is likely to be counter-productive. On a reasonably fast machine, the bonuses can account for the bulk of the points awarded (provided the WUs are turned around quickly).

LOL, you caught me mangling the English language.

I am indeed only running one SMP and one GPU slot on each machine. But thank you for the description because I didn't know that anyhow.

My little "folding garden" (it's way too small to call it a "farm") has been going since Sunday afternoon. I estimate that I've put up probably 50,000 points since I started folding last week, but won't know for sure without analyzing my log files.

I'm probably going to hit "finish" soon and let both machines finish up their current work units and take a break for a few days.

Observation:

It seems to me that both of my machines suddenly are working longer for fewer points. Last week I was bringing in 21,000 points per day but now that has fallen to 17,000 or so. Both machines are working a 2.5 days (24-ish hours more) on their respective SMP workunits, and for fewer points than last week. GPU work units seem to also take slightly longer but are returning roughly the same number of points as before.

My little "folding garden" (it's way too small to call it a "farm") has been going since Sunday afternoon. I estimate that I've put up probably 50,000 points since I started folding last week, but won't know for sure without analyzing my log files.

I'm probably going to hit "finish" soon and let both machines finish up their current work units and take a break for a few days.

Observation:

It seems to me that both of my machines suddenly are working longer for fewer points. Last week I was bringing in 21,000 points per day but now that has fallen to 17,000 or so. Both machines are working a 2.5 days (24-ish hours more) on their respective SMP workunits, and for fewer points than last week. GPU work units seem to also take slightly longer but are returning roughly the same number of points as before.

Still got my 3 systems going. I appear to be averaging around 35K PPD right now. It fluctuates a bit day-to-day, but is typically in the 30-40K PPD range.

The years just pass like trains. I wave, but they don't slow down.-- Steven Wilson